2 Sinking!

Chapter 2 SINKING! "It's the Egg-Mobile!" said Andrew. Through the egg's window, Andrew and Judy saw a big blue parrot. It was flapping its wings frantically. "That's Burpp inside!" said Judy. "Burpp" was short for Bob's Ultra-Robot Parrot Partner. Burpp belonged to Soggy Bob Sloggins. "Burpp looks scared," said Judy. "Holy moly" said Andrew. "The Egg-Mobile has big cracks in it. I think we have to rescue Burpp!" "But what if this is a trick?" said Judy. "What if we rescue Burpp and he tries to take over the

第二章下沉！“是蛋车！”安德鲁说。 透过鸡蛋的窗户，安德鲁和朱迪看到了一只蓝色的大鹦鹉。 它疯狂地拍打着翅膀。 “里面是伯普！”朱迪说。 “伯普”是鲍勃的超级机器鹦鹉搭档的缩写。 Burpp是Soggy Bob Sloggins的。 “伯普看起来很害怕，”朱迪说。 “天哪！”安德鲁说。“鸡蛋移动车有很大的裂缝。 我想我们必须去救伯普！”“但如果这是个骗局呢？”朱迪说。 "如果我们救了伯普，而他试图接管

Water Bug?" Andrew thought for a moment. "We'll tie him up before we let him in," he said. Andrew pressed a black button on the dashboard and spoke into a microphone. "Cut the rope," he said. "Get Burpp out of the Egg-Mobile and use the rope to tie him up. Then bring Burpp into the Water Bug." glurp… "A bad idea," said the Water Bug. "But if you insist…" The hood of the Water Bug popped open. The long gray tentacles of the Octo-Tool twirled out from under the hood. One of the tentacles carried scissors. Lightning fast, it cut the rope that tied the Egg-Mobile to the sawfish's tail. The sawfish sped away. The other tentacles yanked at the window of the Egg-Mobile. The window was also the Egg- Mobile's door. But the tentacles couldn't open it. Three of the tentacles ducked back under the hood. When they came out again, they were carrying hammers. They began to bang away at

水虫?”安德鲁想了一会儿。 “我们得把他绑起来再放他进来，”他说。 安德鲁按下仪表板上的一个黑色按钮，对着麦克风说话。 “割断绳子，”他说。“把伯普从蛋车里拿出来，用绳子把他绑起来。 然后把伯普带进水虫。” “一个坏主意。”水虫说。 “但是如果你坚持……”水虫的引擎盖突然打开了。 八爪工具的灰色长触角从引擎盖下旋转出来。 其中一条触须带着剪刀。 它以闪电般的速度割断了把移动蛋绑在锯鳐尾巴上的绳子。 锯鳐飞快地跑开了。其他的触角猛拉着蛋车的窗户。 窗户也是移动蛋车的门。 但是触角打不开它。 其中三条触须又缩到引擎盖下面。 当他们再次出来时，他们拿着锤子。 他们开始不停地敲打

the white shell. Inside the Egg-Mobile, Burpp pecked the walls with his beak. KRAAACK! The giant egg split in two! Burpp tumbled out. The Octo-Tool tentacles grabbed Burpp, tied up his feet, and towed him under the hood of the Water Bug. A few seconds later, two big parrot feet poked through the rubber flap under the Water Bug's steering wheel. Andrew yanked one foot and Judy tugged the other.

白色的贝壳。在蛋车里，伯普用嘴啄着墙。 KRAAACK !巨大的蛋裂成两半！伯普跌跌撞撞地走了出来。 章鱼工具的触角抓住伯普，绑住他的脚，把他拖到水虫的引擎盖下。 几秒钟后，两只大鹦鹉的脚从水虫方向盘下面的橡胶挡板上戳了出来。 安德鲁拽着一只脚，朱迪拽着另一只脚。

Awk! "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" Burpp squawked from under the hood. "Wait a minute," said Judy. She stopped tugging Burpp's foot and made Andrew stop, too. "Can we really trust you?" she asked. Awk! "Promise!" said Burpp. "On my bird of honor!" "You'd better be telling the truth," said Judy. She grabbed a scaly leg and pulled. "Moof!" she groaned. "I think he's stuck." "Oofers!" said Andrew. "This isn't easy!" Awk! "This not easy for Burpp, either!" squawked Burpp. "Burpp is getting squashed down to parakeet size!" "One, two, three… PULL!" said Judy. Klink, klink, klink… With a tinkle of metal feathers, Burpp burst through the flap. Burpp's wing smacked Judy in the nose and poked Thudd out of Andrew's pocket.

Awk !“谢谢你!谢谢你！谢谢你!”伯普从引擎盖下尖叫起来。 “等一下，”朱迪说。 她不再拽伯普的脚，也让安德鲁停下来。 “我们真的能相信你吗？”她问。 Awk !“我保证！”伯普说。 “我的荣誉之鸟！”“你最好说的是实话，”朱迪说。 她抓住一条长满鳞片的腿使劲拉。 “哞！”她呻吟道。“我觉得他被困住了。” “哎哟！”安德鲁说。“这可不容易！”Awk !“这对Burpp来说也不容易！”Burpp尖叫道。 “伯普被压得只剩长尾小鹦鹉那么大了！”“一、二、三……拉！”朱迪说。 叮当，叮当，叮当……随着金属羽毛的叮当声，伯普冲出了舱门。 伯普的翅膀打在朱迪的鼻子上，把泰德从安德鲁的口袋里戳了出来。

"You'll have to get in the back," said Judy, shoving Burpp's tail feathers over the front seats. Instead of having a backseat like other cars, the Water Bug had a tiny bathroom and a kitchen. Burpp landed between the bathroom door and the kitchen sink. Awk! "Burpp is grateful to you, little Dubbles!" said Burpp. "Soggy Bob left the Egg-Mobile stuck on the coral reef. Then Burpp saw the sawfish. Burpp used the Egg-Mobile claws to rope him! The sawfish pulled the Egg-Mobile off the reef. "But the Egg-Mobile hit a rock. Everything broke! No power! No steering! The claws wouldn't let go of the rope! Burpp could have been stuck to the tail of that sawfish forever!" Andrew looked Burpp in the eye. "You know we've got to find the giant squids before Soggy Bob does," he said. "We can't let Soggy Bob turn them into giant squidwiches." Awk! "Burpp will help you!" said Burpp. "Soggy Bob is loony as a gooney bird and only getting worse!"

“你得坐到后面去，”朱迪说着，把伯普的尾羽推到前排座位上。 不像其他汽车那样有后座，水虫有一个小浴室和一个厨房。 伯普落在浴室门和厨房水槽之间。 Awk !“伯普很感激你，小杜布尔斯！” “湿透的鲍勃把蛋车卡在了珊瑚礁上。 然后伯普看到了锯鳐。 伯普用移动蛋的爪子把他绑了起来！锯鳐把移动蛋从礁石上拖了下来。 但是蛋车撞上了一块石头。 一切了!没有力量!没有指导!爪子不愿放开绳子！伯普可能会永远粘在那条锯鳐的尾巴上！”安德鲁看着伯普的眼睛。 “你知道我们必须赶在湿鲍勃之前找到巨型乌贼，”他说。 “我们不能让湿鲍勃把它们变成巨大的三明治。” Awk !“伯伯会帮你的！”伯伯说。 “湿透的鲍勃疯得像只傻鸟，而且越来越糟！”

"Okay" said Andrew. "Let's go! Judy untie Burpp's feet." Andrew pressed the gas pedal. But instead of speeding ahead, the Water Bug bounced up and down in the water like a pogo stick. Kerchunk… kerchunk… kerchunk… "Uh-oh," said Andrew. The Water Bug began to zigzag down. Blurghhhh… It sputtered and sank. The buttons and dials on the dashboard blinked. The headlights flickered. "Cheese Louise!" said Judy. "We're losing power and sinking fast!"

“好吧，”安德鲁说。“我们走吧!朱迪把伯普的脚解开。” 安德鲁踩下了油门踏板。 但水虫并没有加速前进，而是像弹簧高跷一样在水里上下弹跳。 “哦哦，”安德鲁说。 水虫开始蜿蜒而下。 它噼啪作响，沉了下去。 仪表盘上的按钮和刻度盘闪烁着。 车灯闪烁着。“奶酪露易丝！”朱迪说。 “我们正在失去动力，下沉得很快！”